NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 vs AMD Radeon R7 260X

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB vs AMD Radeon R7 260X 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

5276 points

577% significantly better overall score

779 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

126 FPS

108 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

19 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

61 FPS

50 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

11 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

88 FPS

72 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

16 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

6 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

8766 points

484% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1500 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1320 MHz

20% slightly higher core clock speed

1100 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1777 MHz

77% significantly higher boost clock speed

1000 MHz

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB

499% significantly more memory

2 GiB

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s

246% significantly higher memory bandwidth

104 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

170 W

115 W

47% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.3 Gigapixels/s

384% significantly higher pixel rate

17.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

199 Gigatexels/s

223% significantly higher texture rate

61.6 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

12.74 TFLOPS

546% significantly better floating point performance

1.97 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

3584

300% significantly more shading units

896

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

112

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

98th of 586

284th of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.4

GeForce RTX 3060 vs Radeon R7 260X benchmarks

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card is better than the Radeon R7 260X in our tests.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3060 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce RTX 3060 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

Next up, in terms of GPU memory, the GeForce RTX 3060 has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 2 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

In addition, the Radeon R7 260X has a significantly lower TDP at 115 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3060 at 170 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3060 is better than the Radeon R7 260X.